My Casual Games

If you liked Brain Age or Big Brain Academy, then you’ll love Brain Spa. Train your brain by helping the colorful townsfolk of Brainville in a variety of mind-building challenges. A truly fun way to maximize your memory, improve your perception abilities, power up your language aptitude, and fine-tune your logical thinking skills! Eight separate mini-games plus bonus quizzes, trivia challenges and more!

• Daily tests can assess your overall Brain Power.
• Collect keys to the city to unlock additional bonus quizzes.
• Watch the town expand and flourish as you sharpen your mind.
• Internal time tracking allows you to see your best scores and track your progress over time and also compare results with other players.
• Dynamic leveling system allows the game to customize the difficulty based on your skill.

Train your brain today! Click here to download or buy Brain Spa.

A super-charged sequel to the hit time management game Turbo Pizza, Turbo Subs is twice the fun, twice the challenge, with twice as much speed. Hit the kitchen running as Rebecca and Robert continue their pursuit of building the greatest restaurant franchise in town. Except now they find themselves in a much bigger town, New York City! With loads of upgrades, secret sauces, and unique tastes, Turbo Subs is a delicious new adventure for the whole family!

Click here to download a free 1-hour trial or buy for only $19.95.

In Fashion Rush, help to manage a fashionable store as you rise from lowly helper to fashion mogul.

You play as Satine, a young wannabe Fashion Designer.  In order to unlock the many fashion items that Satine designs and sells, you must make customers happy.  Take orders, cut the correct color of cloth, design the right fashionable garment, and return it to the customer, all without making them impatient or angry. Add in accessories, music and a cute dog, and you have a Fashion Rush.

Time management has never been so fun or so furious. Share Satine`s life and find out if she can manage a successful career and a great love story. Fashion Rush will allow you to create your own clothing collection.  Download an hour trial or buy for $19.95 here.

Blood Ties is a hidden object game based on the Lifetime TV show, and also on the series of vampire/detective books by Tanya Huff.Help private detective Vicki Nelson solve a series of unexplained missing persons cases that appear to be connected to a secret society. Is the connection real? Vicki thinks so, and its up to you to help her, along with her friend Henry (a 450-year-old vampire) and assistant Coreen, to investigate the crime scenes and solve the mystery! Unearth hundreds of items in beautiful and unique locations throughout the city to discover the dark secrets behind this mysterious cabal.

The gameplay is interesting (and progressively harder) and the enivronments are both spooky and ordinary. The music and graphics are great, and the storyline is engrossing. Click here to download a 60-minute trial or buy the game for $19.99.  

I love the movie Dirty Dancing. Of course, in the 80s, I got burned out when my best friend had to listen to the soundtrack EVERY SINGLE DAY and watch the movie at least once a week. Even so, with classic lines like “Nobody puts Baby in the corner”, great couples dancing, and intense (and sometimes cheesy) acting, this is one of my favorite time-waster movies.

Well, Codemasters has taken the world of Dirty Dancing and made it the backdrop of a really fun casual game. You play a guest at Kellerman’s. Like the Sims, you create an avatar and furnish your cabin with furniture and accessories. The avatar choices are limited, although you do get to wear the outfits that Baby sported in the movie. Choose from her classic pedal pushers to the dresses she wore for the dance competitions.

To earn money to furnish your cabin, you need to take on odd jobs around the camp. These jobs combine some of the classic casual game standards - match 3, search for objects, time management, and more. There are 10 games in all, and there are various levels to each game. You can also unlock more locations to furnish, and many extras.

One of those extras is, of course, a dance competition. You need to earn enough money to enter, and then take dance lessons. The lessons are a bulls-eye type game that’s a little difficult, but not too bad. You move up in rank until you can enter the big dance contest.

The music, sounds and cartoon animation and backdrops are first-rate. I loved that they included some 50s songs, and the Kellerman theme song in the game. I really enjoyed playing this. If you’re a fan of the movie, or love variety in your gaming, give it a shot. Click here to download for a free 1-hour trial, or buy the game for $19.95.

Well, it’s almost Halloween. And what could be scarier than a fat cat with a craving for donuts?  Add in a spooky house, and you’ve got a cute animated adventure that’s fun for the whole family. Both Garfield’s Scary Scavenger 1 and Garfield’s Scary Scavenger 2 games are set up with the same sort of gameplay.

You have to search a spooky mansion for clues and donut boxes. Get all the donuts and solve all the puzzles and you’re free. But watch out. Garfield is sort of a scaredy cat. There are lots of scary ghosts and ghouls who jump and scream. If Garfield’s “scary meter” gets too full, he runs away in fear, and you start the game over again.

In Scary Scavenger 1, you have to figure out a way into then out of a haunted mansion. In Scary Scavenger 2, you start out in the dark basement of the mansion, and have to get out. With great music, cool animation, scary sounds, and some familiar faces, this is one game that’s funny and scary at the same time.

Go ahead and play, if you dare. I know I wasted some Halloween time on this fun game.  I even made my kid play with me - and we had fun! Truly frightening.

Want to solve a puzzle without any clues? With this Crossword game, you’re given letters, and you have to add them to the crossword correctly so that all the words match up. Sounds easy, right? Well it is, in the beginner level. The game gives you lots of “starter” letters that help you solve the puzzles quickly.

However, if you go up to expert level, the number of starter levels decreases dramatically. It’s a fun puzzle that tests your word skill.

To play, click on the empty white square, then click on a letter to fill it. All the other squares with the same letter will automatically be filled. If you make a mistake, click on the box with the letter you want to remove, then click on the space bar image.

Click here to start playing this challenging flash game.

Azada has become one of my favorite games. Why? Because it combines many different puzzles and it takes a long time to play. With over 40 unique puzzles, including hidden object, matches, mazes, logic, word, and jigsaw puzzles. These are all combined with great visual style and haunting music.

The background story is that you are trying to release the hero, Titus, from an enchanted room. But the backstory is just a setup for some of the most interesting games around. I played this game with my family, and we all enjoyed it very much. The puzzles were easy enough at the beginning for my 10-year-old son, but they eventually got harder so that they challenged me and my husband.

The puzzles also played to different puzzle-solving strengths. There was also a maze/dexterity puzzle that my husband could finish, but that really frustrated me. Lucky I had help.

This game is definitely worth the $19.99 that you pay for the full verson. The puzzles are good, and the game lasts a long time. To try a free hour, click here.

Pat Sajak’s Trivia Gems is a surprisingly fun game that combines Pat’s gentle humor with some challenging questions. There are 2 game modes that you can play, and each one has its advantages. If you don’t have that much time, the Trivia 10 game is quick and fun.

If you have more time, the Trivia Players game starts off easy and gets progressively harder. First, you start off playing on Monday, and you have to make it to Friday. Each game consists of a pyramid that you have to climb, with 5 categories of trivia questions to answer. During these games, Pat also throws iin some bonus rounds of Gem of a Question and Brain Buster.

The game does a good job of mixing up the trivia questions. They are almost all either multiple choice or true and false, but they are sometimes tricky. I had a ball playing this with family and friends one day. Although the action is fast, everyone could weigh in on the answers.

See whether you have the knowledge to get to Friday! Download a 1-hour free trial or buy the game for only $19.99 here.

Oh my god! icanhascheezburger.com has the funniest cat pics and captions around. Of course, I’m an English nerd, so the captions make my teeth clench, but the pictures are so funny that it’s worth it! I spent a lot of time going through the 90+ pages of pictures (what? yes, I do have a life, really….). The picture here is from page 4.

Catch the wacky cats (and an occasional mouse, ferret, bunny, and dog) here.